RE: what are you paying for processing?
If you don't do it yourself and you have the time I urge you to do it yourself. It is just another part of the hunt. You prep for the coming season, you wake up at 4:30 am to get out in a stand, after you harvest the deer the next step in the hunt is to butcher and process the deer yourself. Or that is the way that I have always looked at it. When you eat it you know that you did every bit of the work.
I taught myself how to do it and have gotten very proficient and good at it and have taught my hunting buddy how to do it. Before that he was paying over $100 forprocessing and meat that he thought was his.
Cameron